Suicide in the Middle Ages, Volume 2 : The Curse on Self-Murder
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0199553181
ISBN-13
9780199553181
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 3rd, 2011
Print length
662 Pages
Weight
1,038 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.30 x 4.10 cms
Product Classification:
European historyMedieval historySocial & cultural historySociology: death & dying
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In The Curse on Self-Murder, the second volume of Suicide in the Middle Ages, Alexander Murray explores the origin of the condemnation of suicide, in a quest which leads along the most unexpected byways of medieval theology, law, mythology, and folklore.
A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out through the tunnel, and put it on a cow-hide to be dragged off and thrown into the offal-pit. Why should the corpse of a suicide - for that is what it is - have earned this unusual treatment? In The Curse on Self-Murder, Alexander Murray explores the origin of the condemnation of suicide, in a quest which leads along the most unexpected byways of medieval theology, law, mythology, and folklore -and, indeed, in some instances beyond them. At an epoch when there might be plenty of ostensible reasons for not wanting to live, the ways used to block the suicidal escape route give a unique perspective on medieval religion.
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